Fashion and Style in Photography 2013 March 15 – May 12, 2013
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Fashion and Style in Photography 2013 March 15 – May 12, 2013 From March 15 to May 12, 2013 six photo exhibitions held by the Government of Moscow, Moscow City Department of culture and Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow \ Moscow House of Photography Museum will take place in the halls of the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation in the framework of VIII Moscow International Biennale “Fashion and Style in Photography”. “STORY OF AN ERA. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCESS ANNA MARIA BORGHESE” Curators: Maria Francesca Bonetti, Mario Peliti The exhibition is organized with the support of the Embassy of Italy in Russia. “A unique view” Maria Francesca Bonetti 1898-1924: In elegant photo-story of princess Anna Maria de Ferrari, the wife of Scipione Borghese, an autobiographical description of sensitive and refined Roman noblewoman intertwined with the history of Italy at that time making the image archive of the twentieth century replenished with a new original documental source. Anna Maria, daughter of the Duke of Genoa Gaetano de Ferrari and Maria Annenkov archduchess, as well as the adopted daughter of the Russian Emperor, was born in the castle of Montallegro in March 23, 1874. In 1895 she married Prince Scipione Borghese, the famous traveler, explorer, mountaineer, and a diplomat. In 1888 George Eastman Company based in the city of Rochester began selling the box camera, designed for enthusiasts and widely distributed due to its accessibility and successful advertising slogan "you push the button, we do the rest". Thanks to this kind of devices, exercises in amateur photography for the first time in history have reached a new level of popularity. Among the followers was Anna Maria, who has devoted herself to a new hobby with systematic regularity almost continuously, since 1898 and until her premature and sudden death, happened in 1924 on the island of Garda. The photographs by Anna Maria Borghese seem to summarize in very succinct manner the way of photography development, from its inception until the modern style era. These works themselves belong to modern style by right, because of Anna Maria’s open mindedness and curiosity and because of multiplicity of countries that she had visited in her travels-adventures together with her husband. The variety of Princess’s visual interests, as well as variety of people and objects captured by her camera boggles the imagination. The portraits of family members and friends, the interiors and exteriors of homes where she lived, familiar landscapes (Bois de Boulogne, the island of Garda, Migliarino, Pantano Borghese), ancient cities of Italy and of the world, where she happened to be, footage from city life, scenes of hunting and sports entertainment or other important events, including airplane flight by Wright brothers ... The latter reason is perfectly suited for experiments with the iconography of the moments, which subsequently took a major place in amateur photography of the twentieth century. The notable period of Anna Maria Borghese’s creativity is the time of the World War I, which she spent at the front, working in the Red Cross and courageously capturing what is going on in the trenches, all horror, cruelty and destructive of war. She became one of the first women which managed to take pictures almost on the front. Perhaps these developments provide her creativity personal and original specificity. Unlike her other famous contemporaries, ¦ brothers Francesco Chigi Primoli or Jacques-Henri Lartigue, who often shoot at secular events, using the advantages that gave them their rank, and whose works have been exhibited to the public opinion and received press coverage already at that time, Princess entrusted her view on the world only to a series of albums which were kept from the very beginning surrounded by other family heirlooms. Nowadays they are still guarded by the heirs in Pantano residence, the historic estate of Borghese, Rome. YURY TOROPTSOV “MARILIN AND I” Curator: Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr Presented by Photo 12 Gallery, Paris “The famous gingham dress! To bring the Beloved Marilyn to life again through it... to see on each model's face the reflection of what she means to each of them... and then, in our minds, dream about the strange power of this incarnate garment” Catherine Deneuve Why does Marilyn Monroe continue to excite imagination fifty years after her death? What does connect her fans with her today? To find the answers to these questions photographer Yuri Toroptsov appealed to those who are deeply tied to Marilyn to explore in original form the extraordinary vitality and modernity of Marilyn Monroe myth. He published advertisements in newspapers and found out some people in Europe and America, both known and unknown, who accepted his invitation to be photographed with a dress belonging to one of the most famous women in Hollywood, and tell what Marilyn means to them. Among those who responded to the call were: the American photographer Douglas Kirkland, who knew Monroe personally, former French Minister of culture Frederic Mitterrand, producer John Landis, and other completely different people, who share strong feelings towards this actress today. Artist’s statement These portraits are of people I met in my travels in Europe and in America. They all accepted to be photographed next to an object I carried with me. It was a vintage summer dress dating from the 1950s which belonged to Marilyn Monroe. In 1999 I had a chance to attend as a spectator “The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe” auction at Christie's in New York. I was intrigued by a masterfully orchestrated ritual in a room filled with people determined to shell out thousands of dollars for the right to own a piece of Hollywood’s most iconic woman. It is at Christie's that I first started wondering about the elements of the exceptional longevity and modernity of Monroe’s myth. A rare opportunity presented itself in 2005, six years after the Christie's auction. A collector friend bought a summer dress from a private wardrobe of Marilyn Monroe. The access I was granted to the relic allowed me to begin my own exploration of Monroe’s legend. With the borrowed dress carefully folded in my photographer’s backpack I went on a journey to meet and photograph men and women of all ages who feel the continuing connection to Marilyn Monroe decades after her death. Yury Toroptsov MALICK SIDIBÉ “LA VIA EN ROSE” Curators: Laura Serani, Laura Incardona Presented by Collezione Maramotti, Italy The exhibition presents a selection of about fifty mostly unpublished photographs taken from 1960’s to 1970's in the capital of Mali - Bamako. These images fully convey the atmosphere of the bustling life of Bamako of those years when the desire of universal unity and integration into world historical process was total. These images have made Sidibй world fame: the parties of 1960-th, the studio portraits and a selection of photos from his archives, telling us about the long and important period in the history of Mali. "I do believe in the power of image, and that's why all my life I have done portraits of people as good as I only could, trying to fill them with beauty, because life is a gift of God, and you have to live with a smile on your face. Image of Africa too often associated with suffering, poverty, misery, but Africa is not only in this. That's what I always wanted to show in my images", said Malik Sidibé, explaining his mission of a photographer and the importance of his works. Malick Sidibй is considered as one of the most respected photographers of Africa. In 2007 he was awarded by the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale for achievements in the arts – for the first time in the history of this Festival a photographer became the winner. In 2003 Sidibé was awarded by the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography in Sweden, in 2008 by the award of the International Center of photography in New York, in 2009 by a premium Photo España-Baume Mercier & in Madrid, and in 2010 by World Press Photo Award (in the category "Arts and entertainment") in Amsterdam. Numerous publications and books released in Europe United States and Africa are devoted to the creativity of the photographer. INGE SCHЦNTHAL FELTRINELLI “PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE TIME” Curators: Cristina Barbano, Paola Riccardi With the support of the “INTENSA” bank In the framework of the Biennale “Fashion and Style in Photography” in Moscow will be presented a collection of photo portraits of famous personalities belong to cultural and political life of the twentieth century, made in 1950-s by young photo reporter Inge Schцnthal or, later Inge Feltrinelli, in 1972 became the head of one of largest European publishing houses ¦ “Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore”. These series of photographs shows the reverently of young German girl towards the world, life and great workers of culture: Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Billy Wilder, Anna Magnani, Simone de Beauvoir and others. The exhibition will also show "Inge Film" ¦ an in-depth interview with Inge Feltrinelli, which she gave to journalist Simonette Fiori. In youth she worked as a photo reporter in Hamburg, New York and Paris, has made many portraits of famous personalities of that time and the famous reportages, among which was “Greece” made together with Federico Patellani. Among her most famous works ¦ Greta Garbo’s photo published by "Life" magazine and photo reportage about Ernest Heminguei made in Cuba at Finca Vigia. Inga met Giangiacomo Feltrinelli and after that her interests turned towards publishing. Since then, she rarely comes back to photograph, but for very special cases. Such way appeared the photographs of the writers with whom she was on friendly terms: Henry Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Nadine Gordimer, Gunter Grass, as well as Fidel Castro’s photos, whose autobiography is to be published by Feltrinelli Publishing House.